The Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity (CSCRE)
2022-2023 Discussion Series: Root Work: Resistance Through Communities of Care
reclamation: everyday acts of resistance through community herbal care
w/ amanda david (they/she)
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
5:00 - 6:30pm
Taughannock Falls (Campus Center 3rd floor)
Amanda will discuss the healing properties of herbs. Followed by a workshop in which attendees will gain first-hand experience with crafting personal tea blends centering holistic and indigenous wellness practices. Learn the benefits of root work through herbalism.
Amanda (they/she) is a local community herbalist, gardener, mother, and creator of Rootwork Herbals, the People's Medicine School, and BIPOC community medicine garden in Ithaca. They/She seeks to build mutually beneficial healing relationships between people, plants, and planet through reclaiming community care and thus resisting oppressive structures.
ABOUT ROOTWORK HERBALS
Rootwork Herbals is the love, work, and play of community herbalist, amanda david. Rootwork Herbals has evolved organically over the years to include various projects within herbalism that seek to build mutually beneficial relationships between people, plants, and planet.
Rootwork Herbals seeks to serve our community through herbal education, consultations and handcrafted remedies that are high quality and accessible to all. We strive to inspire and empower people to take back responsibility for their health utilizing plant medicine in a way that is bio-regional, regenerative, and joyful. Amanda David who has been intimately studying herbal medicine since 1997. She is a chartered herbalist through Dominion Herbal College, apprenticed at the Herb Pharm and with Susun Weed, studied with Margi Flint and is continuing her studies with Dr. Aviva Romm. Although she has studied with renowned experts, she considers her kids, her clients and the plants as her greatest teachers. A lover of plants and a lover of people, she is passionate about bringing them together in a way that promotes personal and planetary health.